Quote of the Week: You do you and I'll do me and we're not gonna do each other.

Not So Bad + Fun Facts About U.S.A.

I'm starting to think, and hope, that the AP Exam might not be as bad as I originally thought it would be.

The 18th Amendment prohibits the sale, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol, but was repealed by 21st Amendment because it caused a rise in organized crime...

I know I I'm talking about it a lot lately but it's been dominating my generally uneventful/boring life, especially since it's only 3 days away now.

Many Americans in the late 1800s- early 1900s thought the U.S. should imperialize other countries because they believed it's the "white man's burden" to civilize the rest of the savages in the world...

When I ever I time myself and do practice questions I always finish with more than enough time left. Also, I'm good at writings so even if I'm a little pressed for time I should do good on those.

Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900...

Last week in our after school reviews we did these practice tests/games on a website called kahoot.it. You get more points for answering questions correctly and quickly and after each question it shows the top 5 people. It just made me sad because I could barely get in the top 5, if I got in there at all.

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican...

But then today we did the game again and I was 1st place for over half the game and only missed 1 out of 20 questions, so I won. It boosted my confidence. The studying must really be paying off.

President Lyndon Johnson won by promising to take the U.S. out of Vietnam, then more than quadrupled the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam the same year he became president...

I'm like a walking, talking, U.S. History Textbook now.

Texas was its own country for a few years before it joined the U.S. in 1844...